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Collocation

Applications and Implications

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Geoff Barnbrook

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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  2. Oliver Mason

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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  3. Ramesh Krishnamurthy

    1. Aston University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Historical Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The concept of collocation

      • Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
      Pages 3-31

    3. Collocation and language theory: twentieth century

      • Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
      Pages 32-51

  3. Implementation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Computing collocations

      • Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
      Pages 55-79

    3. Extensions

      • Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
      Pages 80-90

  4. Applications of Collocation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Concordances and lexicography

      • Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
      Pages 93-118

    3. Pedagogy, translation and natural language processing

      • Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
      Pages 119-143

  5. Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Collocation and language theory: recent developments

      • Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
      Pages 147-173

    3. Case studies

      • Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
      Pages 174-213

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 214-254
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About this book

This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Geoff Barnbrook, Oliver Mason

  • Aston University, UK

    Ramesh Krishnamurthy

About the authors

GEOFF BARNBROOK is Senior Lecturer in English Language, University of Birmingham, UK. His main research interests are in contemporary and historical applications of corpus linguistics and lexicography, and his publications include Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language and Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences.


OLIVER MASON is Lecturer in English Language, University of Birmingham, UK. Oliver is a computational linguist and has developed software for accessing and processing corpus data. He works mainly at the interface of phraseology/syntax with text and discourse.
RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY is Visiting Academic Fellow in the School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, UK. Ramesh worked on the COBUILD project at Birmingham University as a lexicographer and editor, and developed the Bank of English corpus. He has taught at Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Aston universities in the UK and has contributed to several research projects. Ramesh co-edited six volumes of Corpus Linguistics and edited English Collocation Studies: The OSTI Report.

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